Seminar: Towards a Robust Wireless Sensor Network

Speaker: Diego Méndez Chaves

Abstract: For many years, the Wireless Sensor Networks  (WSNs) have been considered as a broad solution for Internet of Things (IoT) based systems, such as, noise and air pollution monitoring, agricultural applications and surveillance services. These systems should be able to monitor the physical variables regularly and simultaneously, to react immediately upon the occurrence of an emergency, and to report the event and its associated data to an observer, in a reliable and energy-efficient way. However, these networks are based on wireless nodes with strong technical restrictions, in terms of computational, storage and energy capabilities, which impose many design and implementation challenges in order to comply with the desired functionality. During this seminar, I will make a brief presentation of our work towards a robust WSN, including auto-configurable, self-healing and multi-modal algorithms, and Wake-Up Radios (WuR).

Bio: Diego Méndez Chaves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. He received his Ph.D (2012) and his M.Sc. (2011) in Computer Science from the University of South Florida, Tampa FL, USA, his M.Eng. (2008) from the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, and his B.Eng (2005) in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia. Diego’s research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, participatory sensing, digital systems design, operating systems and high-level systems design. He is also currently a Research Associate at the T/ICT4D Lab of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.